Civil Peace and Sacred Order, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1989 - 198 pages This book is an ambitious and challenging restatement of traditional political philosophy. The first of a three-volume series, Limits and Renewals, the book is concerned with the nature of political society, particularly with the errors and faulty arguments that have been used to support a "liberal modernist" view of the state and our political system. Clark argues that political modernism, which is determinedly secular and untraditional, has been a destructive influence on religion and our understanding of community living. In order to secure a decent social order, he contends, we must rediscover our allegiance to a sacred order that is represented by, for example, family loyalties, a respect for tradition, and attention to the wider interests of the global and historical community. |
Contents
Reason Value and Tradition I | 1 |
Ending the Age | 27 |
Society without the State | 46 |
Copyright | |
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